The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:35:49PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> in the release announcement of 1.5.0[1] it was said that the alpha
> release towards 1.6 should come out mid-August. That time is now, so
> how about we target Friday, Aug 22nd (European time)?
> 
> I know the review process has been lagging behind badly, and we
> probably won't see e.g. IVI-shell merged for 1.6, but I try to do what
> I can. What major features have been forgotten on the mailing list
> unmerged, that you would like to see included in 1.6?
> 
> I can't promise anything, and I know at least none of my new features
> (Presentation extension, new repaint scheduling algorithm, repaint
> timeline logging, DRM universal planes & nuclear pageflip support,
> linux_dmabuf protocol sketch, and some smaller things) brewing in my
> personal 'next' branch will not make it.
> 
> Obviously a stable first version of xdg_shell would be great to see in
> 1.6, but we shall see if we can beat it into shape in time. When I
> reviewed the XML spec not long ago, it was close but not ready in my
> opinion.
> 
> When xdg_shell does stabilize, we will move xdg_shell.xml into Wayland
> repository and it will be installed, but all build-time users of it must
> generate their own wrappers with wayland-scanner or equivalent. This
> means that libwayland-client will not contain any xdg_shell symbols or
> headers pre-generated. I asked Kristian and he was ok with this plan,
> and I have also talked a little on #wayland-devel, that maybe this
> would be a good idea. If this turns out a bad idea, we can always fix
> it later. Doing it the other way around would be near impossible.
> 
> Should we make libinput the default for 1.6, so that in 1.7 we can
> remove the old input code, or is libinput API still too much in flux?

I don't think it'll change much and Jonas and I have been talking about
declaring it stable soon anyway. I've got two more changes that are somewhat
urgent, both would be additive.

So yes, I think switching to libinput by default would be good.

Cheers,
   Peter

> Also, it was said that 1.5.1 should have come out in "a few weeks" and
> it has been 3 months now. I will try and check the patches already in
> 'master' of both Wayland and Weston and pick them to the 1.5 branches,
> but if you know of patches that should be in stable, especially ones
> without review or not in 'master', let me know and I try do something.
> My selection, especially for Wayland, will probably be very
> conservative, though, as my priority is 1.6.
>